This document contains information about turning off cell phones, things to bring to class, extra credit opportunities by following social media accounts, differences between film and theatre, consolidation in the entertainment industry leading to fewer major corporations controlling screen entertainment, how this may affect content, the influence of screen entertainment on viewers' values and opinions, exposure to graphic violence and catastrophes, whether tax dollars should support the arts, and a quote about reality TV versus actual reality.

1. PLEASE TURN OFF
YOUR CELL PHONE

2. THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT TODAY
▸ Pencil
▸ Syllabus
▸ Long Scantron
▸ Textbook

3. TEXT @DRAM131002
TO 81010

4. EXTRA CREDIT
▸ Follow Kilgore College Theatre on
▸ Instagram
▸ Facebook
▸ Snapchat
▸ Twitter
▸ Youtube

5. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FILM AND THEATRE?
▸ Screenwriters vs. Playwrights?
▸ Ownership and Copyright laws
▸ Screen Actors vs. “Legitimate” Stage Actors?
▸ Directors for Film vs. Directors for Theatre?
▸ Screen Audiences vs. Stage Audiences?

6. THIRTY YEARS AGO, THERE WERE ABOUT FIFTY
DIFFERENT CORPORATIONS WHO CONTROLLED OUR
SCREEN ENTERTAINMENTS, BUT TODAY, BECAUSE OF
DEREGULATION, THERE ARE ONLY ABOUT TEN.
- HOW DO YOU THINK THIS AFFECTS OUR SCREEN
ENTERTAINMENT?

8. “WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS THE CREATION OF A GLOBAL OLIGOPOLY. IT
HAPPENED TO THE OIL AND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES EARLIER THIS CENTURY;
NOW IT IS HAPPENING TO THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY,” SAYS CHRISTOPHER
DIXON, DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RESEARCH FOR PAINE WEBBER. NOT ONLY DO
THESE CORPORATIONS OWN OUR SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT, BUT THEY ALSO
CONTROL THE MAJORITY OF OUR MEDIA, INCLUDING MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS,
MUSIC PRODUCERS, CABLE CHANNELS, MOVIE PRODUCTION STUDIOS, MOVIE
THEATERS, AND TELEVISION SHOWS, STATIONS, AND NETWORKS. “IN SOME
RESPECTS, THE GLOBAL MEDIA MARKET MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLES A CARTEL
THEN IT DOES THE COMPETITIVE MARKET PLACE FOUND IN ECONOMICS
TEXTBOOKS,” SAYS ROBERT MCCHESNEY, AUTHOR OF RICH MEDIA, POOR
DEMOCRACY.

9. DO YOU THINK WATCHING
SCREEN ENTERTAINMENTS
AFFECT YOUR VALUES AND
OPINIONS?

11. ▸ The Annenberg School of Communication found that
teenagers who watch talk shows wildly overestimate the
extent of social problems. Teens who watched a steady diet
of talk shows guessed that fifty-five percent of girls become
pregnant before the age of eighteen. Teens who did not
watch talk shows guessed thirty percent. (In actuality the total
number of teenage girls in the US who get pregnant is only
around four percent.)

13. HOW MANY IMAGES/ARTICLES
OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE & MAJOR
CATASTROPHES HAVE YOU
ENCOUNTERED THIS WEEK?

15. SHOULD TAX-DOLLARS GO TO
SUPPORT THE ARTS?

16. “I THINK THAT WE HAVE A CITIZENSHIP DEFICIT IN THIS
COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE DON’T LOOK AT THE ISSUES.
THEY DO NOT STUDY THEM AT ALL AND I THINK THAT
[...] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE
WITH REALITY TV THAN WITH REALITY.”
JOE KLEIN